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  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: fhsu3

    Updated:11-03-04

    Duration of ownership:1 Weeks

    Strengths: Highly integrated Office tools help transfering data and graphics between programs very simple. It's almost necessary for people who do presentation or training on a regular basis.

    Weaknesses: Microsoft's monopoly makes it quite expensive to obtain, unless your company is willing to pay for it of course.

    Overall Evaluation: For most everyday users, there's not much difference between Office 2003 and Office XP, or even Office 2000. The reasons that I got it is because it's the most recent Office release and it's compatible with Windows XP.I did ran into a bug during installation of the Business Contact Manager. It complained about "not enough space in drive C:" due to the installer miscalculating the available disk space. While the solution provided by Microsoft's support site doesn't work, I did find a solution from Gateway's support site. I just need to add ~107MB of data onto my hard disk and everything went smoothly.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: missionoms

    Updated:10-07-04

    Duration of ownership:1 Weeks

    Strengths: Superfast setup with no apparent incompatibility.

    Weaknesses: None

    Overall Evaluation: This product installed without a hitch. I was able to get online and perform all the updates without any evidence of incompatibility. The programs functions like the retailed product I purchased for my desktop.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: andybear

    Updated:08-09-04

    Duration of ownership:2 Days

    Strengths: Installation was automatic and went without a hitch.

    Weaknesses: The installed applications require significant file storage overhead.

    Overall Evaluation: The application suite provides great functionality and configurability. Suggest getting usefull free downloads from MS for each individual module Now I can easily work remotely on all MS applications and transfer files back and forth to the office.

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: WhyWouldIStop

    Updated:08-03-04

    Duration of ownership:13 Days

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    Overall Evaluation: Useful and great. Not very easy to understand. Installation was hard and the user guide really didn't help. Great for offices but bad for home or PC Gamers.

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: barking

    Updated:07-21-04

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: GOOD SOFTWARE OFFERS EVERYTHING I NEED

    Weaknesses: MICROSOFT PRODUCTS ARE JUST TOO EXPENSIVE!

    Overall Evaluation: I CURRENTLY USE OFFICE 2002. I ASSUMED 2003 IS BETTER. I CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE POWERPOINT AND ACCESS. WITH 2003 IT COMES WITH EVERYTHING. EVEN THOUGH I DO NOT USE EXCEL AT THIS TIME, I LIKE TO HAVE ALL OF THESE SOFTWARES ON HAND!

  • Overall Rating
    3 stars 3 Star Review
    Reviewed by: americanoregon

    Updated:06-01-04

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Seeing your money go to Microsoft makes you feel warm and tingly inside.

    Weaknesses: There is a learning curve required for this upgrade. It is NOT user-friendly. Help and tutorials are pathetic. Plan on getting a book. Most new features apply only to networks and developers.

    Overall Evaluation: If you don't REALLY need the 2003 version, don't bother. Use your older, familiar versionUnless this is your first copy, then you might as well start here. If you do use 2003 (or XP), you really will need a book or two that explains the new version. And don't count on more productivity unless you are a serious pro on a network. Home and small business users have not gotten much help.

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